Lulzim Tafa was born in 1970 in Lipjan, Kosovo. He completed his undergraduate and master’s studies at the Faculty of Law, University of Pristina, and his doctoral studies at the Faculty of Law, University of Sarajevo. He is a university professor and has worked at universities both in Kosovo and abroad. From 2012 to 2020, he served as the Rector of AAB College.
His poems have been translated into many world languages and included in several anthologies. He is the recipient of numerous prestigious international awards for literature, such as the “Mihai Eminescu”, “Radovan Zogović”, “Alexander the Great”, “Pablo Neruda”, among others. He has also received many national and international decorations and honors, such as the “Presidential Medal of Merits” from the President of the Republic of Kosovo, the “Yuri the Victor” Medal from the Holy Patriarch of Ukraine, and the Decoration of “Officer of the National Order of Arts and Letters” from the President of the Republic of France. His books have been translated into English, German, Italian, Serbian, Croatian, French, Bosnian, Montenegrin, Turkish, Greek, Romanian, Romani, Swedish, Arabic, Macedonian, Russian, Hungarian, Slovenian, Ukrainian, and other languages.
Lulzim Tafa is a regular member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts, a regular member of the Academy of Arts and Letters in France, a foreign member of the Academy of Sciences of Albania, the Bosnian Academy, and others. He has been awarded multiple times the title of “Doctor Honoris Causa” from prestigious universities worldwide. He published his first poems as a student, and his first poetry book during his university studies. The war and humanitarian catastrophe of 1999 destroyed his personal library, along with over 300 handwritten poems.
He is one of the most renowned and most translated poets of Albanian literature in the world.
Bujar Demjaha was born in Ferizaj in 1960. He is a distinguished architect in Kosovo but also abroad. He has designed many projects and has published several important books in Kosovo, the region, Germany, United Kingdom, France, etc.
In addition to the special project “Adem Jashari” memorial in Prekaz Bujar Demjaha has also designed several memorials in Prishtina, Klecka, Gllogjan, Kerchovo, etc. Other important projects of Demjaha are: Municipal Development Plan of Prishtina, Urban Regulatory Plan of the Pejton Neighborhood in Prishtina, Kosovo’s Contemporary Arts Museum (First Prize in Competition). His projects from the conservation and restoration area are: Engelhard Complex (XV century) – Blanzac in France, Ethnological Museum “Emin Gjiku” in Pristina. From the field of interior rehabilitation of the Kosovo National Theater and the Kosovo Museum in Pristina are its distinguished projects.
Bujar Demjaha has published several books in Kosovo, Germany, the United Kingdom and Bosnia:
Bujar Demjaha holds the highest scientific degree Doctor of Science in the field of Architecture, Urbanism and Regional Planning, is a teacher of several subjects at AAB College and Tetovo University.
Lives and operates in Prishtina.
He was a professor at the AAB University and was its first Rector. He finished his Elementary and Secondary school in Pristina and his undergraduate studies at the University of Belgrade. He specialized at the University of Zagreb and the Sorbonne, in Paris. He completed his master studies in Zagreb earning the degree of Master of Philology. He engaged in doctoral scientific research mainly in Paris and in Tirana. He finished his PhD studies at the Faculty of Philology at the University of Pristina where he also taught as a Full Professor until 2003.
Masar Stavileci has published a considerable number of critical and literary studies in newspapers and magazines in Kosovo, Albania, France, England, and in some of the former Yugoslav republics.He participated in congresses, symposia, sessions and research projects of national and international characters. He has been active in the field of literary translations from foreign languages into Albanian language. He translated the novel Neveriaof the great French philosopher and writerJ.P. Sartre.
Apart from these, he has published several books including: “Illuminismin the Albanian National Renaissance Literature”, Pristina, 1990; “French literary themes”, Pristina, 1996; “An apology to the Albanian issue”, Pristina, 1998; “Albanian illuminism”, ed. II; Tirana, 2000, “Elements of literary stylistics”, Pristina, 2005; “An apology to the Albanian issue”, bot. III, on the 100th Anniversary of Independence, Tirana, 2012.
Enver Petrovci, former rector of AAB University, studied Acting in the Pedagogical High School in Prishtina,he then completed university studies at the Faculty of Dramatic Arts at the University of Belgrade. He is one of the founders of Dramatic Art faculty and the Academy of Arts at Prishtina University. In 1989 Mr. Petrovci returned from Belgrade to lecture acting in the University of Prishtina and created new generations of actors in Kosovo.
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Dr. Uros Lipuscek, former rector of AAB University has worked as a USA correspondent and editor for Slovenia RTV, then as a consultant of OSCE Mission in Kosovo. He is an author of numerous texts regarding the World War Iwhere he analyses the role of great powers- United States, and the change borders in the Central Europe which correlate to lives ofSlovenians in Balkans. He has also attended international conferences and has published scientific works of the relevant field.
